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From: jon@ptsfb.UUCP (Jon Gallagher)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.unix
Subject: Re: Callan UUCP system names on System-V, utsname.
Message-ID: <226@ptsfb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 01:42:53 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 11 01:42:53 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Sep-85 23:29:34 EDT
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Reply-To: jon@ptsfb.UUCP (Jon Gallagher)
Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco
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	It's been our experience that the "setuname" coomand works
just fine on System V and V.2. We distribute a system based on the CT
Megaframe and have /etc/rc do a setuname (based on a `cat $file`
of two files, sysnam and nodename) on going to init 2.
The subsequent unames come out just as the manual says they
should ( :-} :-} :-} ) We find this a lot easier than relinking 
/unix (which we ended up having to do because there wasn't enough 
message queue space but...)
	Seriously, using the (1M) utilities will save you a lot
of headaches, especially if you don't knoiw exactly what *surpirises*
your suppliers' little gnomes have hidden in the kernel ( again, :-} )
-- 
Jon Gallagher
Pacific Bell

2600 Camino Ramon
San Ramon, CA 94583

(415) 823-2451

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